Australian letters in the London eye.
| Publisher | English Association |
| Publication | Southerly |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0038-3732 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Published | 2007-03-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Charles Dickens |
| Person | Works | Charles Dickens |
| Author | n/a | Ian Henderson |
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This article elucidates the "global position" of Australian letters, their location, figuration, significance, and value as scoped by London reading eyes in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. By Australian letters I mean both Australian literature and Australian lettering, literally. I will proceed not by examining the English reception of a "real" nineteenth-century Australian writer, but by contextualising the work of one of the first Australian author-characters to appear in English literature: Mr Wilkins Micawber in Charles Dickens's The Personal History of David...
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